Plasma ignoring some .desktop files...

[MusicalCoda]

Thanks again for the wonderful and helpful suggestions. This forum really does rock! I can see people are really trying to help solve this and I LOVE that!

Menus? How 20^th century

LOL. I'm not sure how others are starting their applications without menus of some kind. The terminal? A series of keyboard shortcuts remembered by rote? I guess whatever floats your boat but what is KDE Plasma if not a menuing and windowing system? If one doesn't need or want that then why wouldn't you just opt for a terminal-only version of linux? It seems rather silly to me to install what is probably the most highly configurable menuing and and windowing system for linux operating systems and then stubbornly launch all your apps from the terminal... but you know... each to their own. I love the terminal but I also love guis.

Are you using a different icon theme

No...

perhaps any scaling or screen resizing?

No. No...

do you have the relevant icon file for the game

Yes... My icons are in the same places as yours.

Try opening the menu editor (right-click on the application launcher icon) and see if the game is present there

Already ahead of your there. No, it isn't. Not even if you turn the setting on to show hidden items.


It may well be correct that there is something different (if only slightly) about these .desktop items but I've been sampling a lot of OS/destop environments.


Here is a list of ones I have tried which do the expected thing with the .desktop files of these apps and create stable reliable menu items from them:

Official Ubuntu Flavours:

1. Ubuntu (Gnome)
2. Lubuntu
3. Ubuntu Budgie
4. Ubuntu MATE
5. Ubuntu Unity
6. Xubuntu

Non-Official Ubuntu Flavours:
7. Linux Mint (Cinnamon)
8. Pop!_OS
9. UbuntuDDE


Here is a list of ones I have tried which fail to do so:

Official Ubuntu Flavours:

1. Kubuntu


Whatever is different about these files or the items they point to, KDE Plasma is alone in not being able to handle these allegedly degenerate cases appropriately.

And honestly, I want to cry because it is HIGHLY apparent that KDE Plasma is the clear leader in just about every other way. It is the obvious KING of DE's and I LOVE it and want to keep it but sadly this is a deal breaker for me. I don't have time to check if every app icon is still where it should be and fiddle about constantly trying to work out why the links to my apps are missing or broken and try to fix them. I've already spent over a week of my life on this and I would like to thank EVERYONE here for your AMAZING input and assistance. I would submit a bug report to the KDE devs but my previous experience with other apps is that doing so nowadays has been made so difficult that I can't be bothered jumping though the types of hoops required. Honestly, I think this is why a lot of bugs go unfixed in a lot of apps. No one can be bothered fulfilling the stringent protocol required to report.

Thankyou all once again.

[acheron]

A perfect example of this is what happens when you install, FLTK Block Attack! It installs FLTK Checkers & FLTK Sudoku along with it. All three have .desktop files but only the last two appear in the menu.

Seems ok here.